New Orleans City Councilman and wannabe mayor J.P. Morrell took to Twitter to call for more gun control. Specifically, he wants to restrict guns for “law-abiding citizens” (his quotes).
The Uvalde shooter had no documented mental health issues & bought his weapon legally.
I applaud the Senate's effort to finally address gun violence, but restricting access to lethal weapons for "law-abiding citizens" is the exact conversation we need to be having. https://t.co/GuZ1zWHYAd
— jpmorrell (@JPMorrell) June 14, 2022
That’s right, J.P. Morrell sees you, the law-abiding gun owners, as the problem.
Suffice to say, the people on Twitter were not having it and they proceeded to roast Morrell in the replies.
Yet u work for the ppl of 1 the most dangerous cities & we as tax payers cant rely on police to show up in a timely manner or 911 to even answer the phone & we have a mayor who jet sets weekly but yes tell me why u want to make it difficult for me to protect my family
— GGeaux37 (@GGeaux37) June 14, 2022
How many times do we find out the latest gun crime arrestee has prior charges? Our problem isn't law abiding citizens — our DA and judges are releasing criminals back to the streets.
— Fix New Orleans (@FixNOLA) June 14, 2022
Right. He wants to penalize and criminalize the law abiding and ignore the criminals shooting each other and bystanders with illegal weapons. In a nation where 400 million guns are in civilian hands, virtue signaling gun control will get a lot of people killed.
— Michele Avery (@maverymba) June 14, 2022
https://twitter.com/MaybeEdHarris/status/1536771854911905801
This guy has a really good idea:
All we’re asking for is the right to the same weapons that we paid for the Taliban to own
— MaybeEdHarris (@MaybeEdHarris) June 14, 2022
Speaking for me personally, I definitely want my own M16A4, M4, or perhaps my very own armored vehicle. Yeah, the gas mileage would suck, and filling it up would really hurt my wallet, especially with Joe Biden’s gas prices. But it would definitely be a conversation starter in my driveway.
There is also the problem of how expensive ammo is these days if you can get it. But firing fully automatic weapons is fun and definitely serves the purpose of self-defense well.
Meanwhile, back to Twitter. This guy really gets right to the crux of the issue with Morrell’s tweet, other than the restrictions on constitutional rights.
https://twitter.com/AUChizad/status/1536770699737579522
The gun violence problem in New Orleans is not law-abiding citizens. These people are not going to Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard Parish, or St. Tammany Parish to buy guns from the local gun store or pawn shop. They’re not even going to Academy or to the local gun show. They’re either stealing the guns, buying them on the black market, or they’re having someone, a “straw purchaser”, buy the guns illegally.
Meanwhile, we’ll close with the tweets with this astute observation from a woman.
You don’t have the right to tell a law abiding citizen how she can purchase a gun. You can’t stop evil. You can hope someone is there with equal power to stop the evil. You can’t keep illegal guns off the streets of Nola, but you want to take them from law abiding citizens? Oh ok
— Jennifer (@jenpwcoleman) June 14, 2022
The government in New Orleans doesn’t even bother enforcing the law as it is. How dare they advocate for the disarming of law-abiding people to cover up for their failure.
The people will not give up their guns willingly. They definitely will not give up them because a certain city refuses to actually punish crime.